19.10.05

Rodrigo Barnes writes:

Prof Wadler

You probably saw this already, but there's an interesting book covering a lot of the state of the art the Links project tackles (problems/solutions for web application development): 'Beyond Java' by Bruce Tate (O'Reilly, 0596100949)

A large part of it is an exposition of the benefits of Ruby (esp. Ruby on Rails) v. Java frameworks, but he does mention erlang and Haskell and there's a good chapter on Seaside on Smalltalk (a continuation server).

What I find interesting is that this is coming from industry rather than research, but does deal with language issues, if only on a superficial level. Tate has written some good books 'Better, Faster, Lighter Java' and 'Spring, a developer's notebook' which mark a progression away from the 'official' Java enterprise line. This is a line I've been following, as I think I've mentioned previously.

He's not very complementary on generics in Java as he says it is a language rather than JVM based implementation (so you don't get type safety when you integrate with non generic collections code).

http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/beyondjava/index.html

Regards

Rodrigo

No, I had not heard of the book, but I'll check it out. Thanks, Rodrigo!